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Were there any professional women artists during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Sixteenth-Century European Art and Architecture Read more from
Chapter The Early Modern World, C. 1300–1600

Yes! There were many highly regarded women artists working during the Renaissance and the years after in both Italy and Northern Europe. Here are just a few of the approximately thirty known women.

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